How are the saints represented? What typologies have artists throughout the history of art used to represent each of them? Dr. Michela Beatrice Ferri will explain the reasons for the representation of the saints from their origins to the present day. All those who listen to the broadcast should have in front of them a way to access the Internet. Dr. Michela Ferri will show which images to search in Google Images while she analyzes them. Those works that for our ancestors (in United States or in Europe) were so eloquent, small and great masterpieces of sacred art that decorate churches or are shown off in museums, today strike us for their artistic value, but the endless plot of messages in the story often escapes us. A large part of the way saints are represented is in fact characterized by specific attributes or symbols. In the first part of the conference, Dr. Michela Ferri will explain the correspondence between the individual saints and the iconographic typologies from ancient sources that are recurrent in their representation. This will include an exhaustive set of references to other voices that define the iconographic picture of each saint. In the second part of the conference we have a list of the names of the saints with their respective symbolism. (Aired on Thursday, March 8, 2018.)

​Dr. Ferri is recognized as one of the leading experts in the field of Sacred Art, and she is the Author of a volume dedicated to the dialogue between Catholic Faith and Art, devoted to an inquiry concerning Contemporary Sacred Art entitled Sacro Contemporaneo. Dialoghi sull’arte, published in 2016 by the Roman Catholic publishing house Áncora Editrice based in Milan, Italy, and scheduled for publication in spring 2018 by En Route Books and Media.